Europe has no shortage of ‘buy now, pay later’ startups and a quick search is revealing. Berlin-based fintech startup Mondu has taken in €39.9 million to expand its B2B BNPL solution. Madrid’s RITMO scored over €184 million. Tranch in the UK is launching BNPL to a B2B market with €4 million. Berlin…
Today’s chatbots are compelling. They use AI and ML algorithms to learn, speak like people, offer solutions and basic customer support, route customers, and much more.
Growing up enterprise for SaaS startups: 7 lessons on doing it right
A lot of founders make the mistake of thinking that hiring a bunch of highly paid account executives (a fancy name for salespeople) is the same as "going enterprise." It’s not.
During a downturn, sales teams should think like product managers
Getting back to consumers means understanding data on them, experimenting with solutions, and iterating. Sound familiar? That’s exactly what product teams do to refine their offerings.
DealHub secures $60M for sales tools to configure, price, and quote
DealHub, a vendor developing tools for sales teams to configure, price, and quote products and offers, has raised $60 million in a venture funding round.
Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global
More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU, whose $3.2 million seed round we …
A round, acquisition and revenue later, Bravado’s sales network wants you to know it’s #growing
Sahil Mansuri, a sales guy, doesn’t want his industry to be defined by sales guys. The founder began Bravado in 2017 to see what happens when you bring together sales professionals into an online community for trading notes, horror stories and secrets. It took the startup four years to hit 10,000 u…
As the NFT boom fades, major gaming companies slow their crypto plans
When there’s money to be made, feedback can, and often does, go unheard. Still, a few major gaming companies did backtrack on their plans to add NFTs to games. So what happened?